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February 10 - February 23, 2017
Affairs of the Nation
TAKING BREXIT SERIOUSLY
IF, as we are constantly reminded, the consequences of Brexit will create the greatest challenge to the Irish body politic since the foundation of the state why are we not... Read more »
O’BRIEN’S KERINS PRECEDENT
IS IT fear of serial litigant Denis O’Brien that has produced the media understatement about Angela Kerins’s adverse judgment, namely that it might have “some bearing” on his case against... Read more »
BUSY LIZZY’S ROUGH RIDE
THERE WAS surely plenty of uncomfortable shuffling in the saddle by players in the horseracing industry after TD Clare Daly let fly at the sector in the Dáil last week,... Read more »
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CHRISTIAN CARTER’S CHARITY WORK
IT HAS been a bad start to 2017 for Christian Carter (brother of Marissa “Cocoa Brown” Carter, see p18), who ended up in the Circuit Court last month as a... Read more »
IAN HYLAND’S STATE SUPPORT
IAN HYLAND must have been delighted with the puff piece in The Irish Times last week singing the praises of his latest wheeze, the Dublin Tech Summit (DTS), which is... Read more »
GOING FOR GOLD AT THE OCI
THE ELECTION of Pat Hickey’s successor as president of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) takes pace at the end of this week but there are other positions to be... Read more »
Honohan v Ryan
MASTER of the High Court Ed Honohan irked Me’ Luds yet again in the New Year with a front page splash in The Irish Times where he attacked Circuit Court... Read more »
VIRGIN SAVIOUR FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’?
THERE is little disagreement about the extent of The Irish Times’ financial crisis with Denis O’Brien taking pleasure in pointing to it last year and the newspaper’s managing director, Liam... Read more »
Cashing in on AIB float
RECENT reports that AIB is planning the sale of hundreds of properties to vulture funds such as Cerberus suggests the move to privatise AIB is imminent. The news of AIB... Read more »
Pillars of Society
Dara Murphy
THE perverse priorities of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s political appointments are personified by the undistinguished Dara Murphy, junior minister for European affairs. Murphy has... Read more »
The Young Bloods
Rudi Butler
Rudi Butler, far left THE RISING tide of the property market is bringing a new generation of plucky young developers to prominence, few of... Read more »
ESB’s Ardnacrusha Power Station Reopens for Free Public Tours This Summer
ESB is once again running guided tours at Ardnacrusha Power Station in Co Clare this summer, offering the public a rare opportunity to explore one of Ireland’s most significant... Read more »
Fit to Print?
RONAN FANNING’S ‘WHITE NIGGER’
“A DEEP appreciation of the importance of archives” and “a relish for the power plays of high politics” were just two of the glowing – and very accurate – tributes... Read more »
O’BRIEN’S DAMNED STATISTICS
COVERAGE of the latest JNLR (12 months to December 2016) radio ratings of Denis O’Brien’s Newstalk in Denis O’Brien’s Irish Independent was hilarious in its efforts to obscure the deepening... Read more »
Sindo discretion
IRISH TIMES literary correspondent Eileen Battersby would not have been displeased at her newspaper’s review last autumn of her first novel, Teethmarks on My Tongue, penned by Katherine A Powers... Read more »
Last Refuge
WICKLOW’S SOCIAL DEMOCRAT
MEDIA punditry about Stephen Donnelly reneging on his Independent, social democrat principles was predicated on the notion that he had cunningly negotiated his way into a future Fianna Fáil cabinet.... Read more »
SIPTU BOSS CHALLENGES HOWLIN
IS LABOUR preparing for a new party chief already? Current leader Brendan Howlin’s “welcome” for Siptu boss Jack O’Connor’s bid for chair of the party was a little lukewarm. Howlin... Read more »
Greedy-Raes
KERRY’S EYE turned its beady focus on TD brothers Mikey and Danny Healy-Rae recently with a wealth of detail about the mountain of moolah the lads bring home from their... Read more »
SINN FÉIN’S COALITION STRATEGY
A CAREFULLY formulated article on coalition government by key Sinn Féin strategist Eoin Ó Broin in the Sunday Business Post recently was, if anything, more indicative of the party’s coalition... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
‘Go and fuck yourselves. Read the Irish Times!’ A DROMOD man was given probation when he appeared at Carrick-on-Shannon District Court charged with threatening, abusing or insulting behaviour during an... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
FRACKING: TO BAN OR NOT TO BAN?
THE Times of India described the Dáil’s progress of the bill as “historic”, while Russia Today recorded “an important moment in the history of the Divestment Movement”. But if you... Read more »
Foreign Frolics
BEFORE TRUMP, THE BORDER WALL WAS A BIPARTISAN PROJECT
by OLIVER ORTEGA RIGHTWING fantasies of a southern border wall are not new. Nor are they limited to Republicans or Trump supporters. When President Trump signed an executive order last... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
We were those emigrants who first saw Ms Liberty appearing out of the Hudson fog and said we had realised our ambition to be able to go to the US.... Read more »
High Society
BIG BUCKS IN BEAUTY BUSINESS
INTERESTING to discover that Marissa Carter, the woman behind the very popular Cocoa Brown tanning product, is set to expand her burgeoning empire, as... Read more »
LUCY NAGLE’S FASHIONABLE FIGURES
THE SINDO’s favourite designer, Lucy Nagle, got yet another plug last weekend when described by Barry Egan as, er, “the Goddess of the gansey”... Read more »
PATRICK DORAN’S PROFITS
ONE NAME that has popped up in the ongoing saga over the proposed sale of Walford to a Dermot Desmond family trust is that of Foxrock-based Patrick Doran, who is... Read more »
CEA: There is No Such Thing as Director-lite
THE Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) enforces any breach of company law by companies or the directors of a company. Michael Dillon, CEA’s Director of Legal, explains that... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY
FOLLOWING THE exit at the end of 2016 of Sarah Lynch, general manager of Galway’s Druid Theatre for the previous 18 years, there has been something of shake-up at the... Read more »
Hot Chocolate
AN ARTS centre on King’s Street in Dublin 1, the Chocolate Factory, has initiated legal action against Dublin City Council (DCC), although nobody is saying what the problem is. The... Read more »
FILM BOARD’S FAMILIAR WINNERS
THE IRISH Film Board (IFB) has just published its fourth quarter offers for 2016 and it transpires that “loans” amounting to €2m were dispensed with the generosity of Santa Claus... Read more »
Sport of Kings
SADDLING UP AT HRI
AFTER MORE than 15 years with Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) Michael O’Rourke has called it a day as director of marketing to pursue a career as a consultant. The result... Read more »
NEW FACES
IT WAS surprising to see John Osborne deciding to step down from his position as chief executive of the Irish National Stud at the end of the 2017 breeding season... Read more »
BALLYMORE BACK IN THE GAME
HOW LONG before Sean Mulryan’s silks are back on the racecourse? Not long it seems, following news that his Ballymore Properties has resumed its sponsorship at the Punchestown Festival. Back... Read more »
Reviews
JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL … GATE THEATRE
TEMPTING as it is, you can’t blame La La Land. The Hollywood awards favourite may bring American musicals back into the mainstream, but Irish theatre producers have been dubiously dabbling... Read more »
Radio
DRIVETIME RADIO – RADIO 1, NEWSTALK, TODAY FM
WELCOME to la la land. Sarah McInerney, co-presenter of Newstalk Drive, couldn’t contain her giddiness as she introduced a discussion on this year’s Oscar nominees. Her exhilaration even extended to... Read more »
Books
HOSTAGES – OISÍN FAGAN (NEW ISLAND BOOKS)
MIXING MAGIC realism with sci-fi dystopian horror and elements of pulp fiction, this series of standalone parables consists of five (longish) short stories, each set in a disturbing world not... Read more »
Moneybags
Aryzta is now a buy-out target
OWEN KILLIAN in Aryzta has been hit by a perfect storm and is under particular pressure from his new largest shareholder, Causeway Capital Management,... Read more »
Abbey shareholders increasingly isolated
HAVING GAINED control of the Abbey house building group with the blessing of the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) authorities, Charlie Gallagher has now begun... Read more »
Croke Park’s Newest Hospitality Experience
THIS EXCLUSIVE section blends the hospitality experience of Croke Park with a social, shared space, giving you the best of both worlds to enhance your match-day experience. Located in... Read more »
Brief Cases
Small mercies for Tadhg Gunnell
FORMER Bloxham director Tadhg Gunnell had a rare spot of luck at the end of January when he managed to successfully appeal part of a disciplinary tribunal ruling of Chartered... Read more »
Dublin City Council’s pyrite saga rolls on
GOLDHAWK’s old pals at Irish Asphalt (IA) Ltd had a bruising start to 2017 after Cavan builders James Elliott Construction (JEC) Ltd registered a judgment against it for nearly €2.7m... Read more »
Derek O’Leary’s good day in court
CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s old pal Foxrock developer Derek O’Leary who had a pretty decent day in the Court of Appeal recently. One of O’Leary’s property companies, D&L Properties Ltd, is... Read more »
Carlow beer barons brew up success
CONGRATULATIONS are in order for the beer barons at Carlow Craft Brewery Ltd, the company behind the increasingly popular O’Hara’s range of craft beers. The Mhuine Beg brewer filed its... Read more »
Industrial distress in Trinity College
A ROW between management and workers has been on the boil in Trinity College where Unite and Siptu have been involved in talks with the college’s human resources department for... Read more »
Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern at National Design & Craft Gallery
The highly anticipated Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern exhibition has arrived at Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) National Design and Craft Gallery in Kilkenny. Running from February... Read more »
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